Pentagon documents unearthed by The Washington Post this
April revealed that the elevation of Zarqawi's profile was a deliberate,
multimillion-dollar propaganda campaign aimed at the U.S. people to foment the
lie that the insurgency was largely an al-Qaida terrorist operation, not a
native rebellion against the occupation. As one Pentagon general put it: "The
Zarqawi Psy-Op program is the most successful information campaign to date."
One can only hope that the timely beheading of Nicholas Berg was not part of
this "information campaign."